a few years I built a shortened Land Rover chassis from a discovery. we cut the chassis and took 12 inches out of it and welded back together. The new wheelbase is 88" and the original idea was to put an old series body I had on it to make a hybrid. One thing lead to another and I ended up with a lot of rover parts and pieces and the original idea morphed into rebuilding the original and building some sort of hybrid. I've had lots of ideas but have always liked the Bowler Tomcat design for its relative simplicity. I just found a nice computer model I can use for a design basis.
might look a little like this when finished:
